But according to a huge new study out of Canada, it's low-fat diets – even just diets low in saturated fat – that are more likely to kill us. The study had another surprise for traditional dietitians, too. It showed that high-carb diets tend to send us to earlier graves, too.
]]>Saint James Barbell ClubGabriel Suarezhttp://www.warriortalk.com/showthread.php?136891-Tip-Eat-More-Steak-Chicken-Skin-and-Baconhttp://www.warriortalk.com/showthread.php?136874-THIS-WEEK-S-LIFTS-9-15-2017&goto=newpost
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 00:30:51 GMThttps://youtu.be/73HPYfADXbo
]]>Saint James Barbell ClubGabriel Suarezhttp://www.warriortalk.com/showthread.php?136874-THIS-WEEK-S-LIFTS-9-15-2017America Loves Steroids The True Story of Anabolic Usage in the UShttp://www.warriortalk.com/showthread.php?136869-America-Loves-Steroids-The-True-Story-of-Anabolic-Usage-in-the-US&goto=newpost
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:45:24 GMTEvery sports federation on earth has banned steroid use. In the U.S., there are federal and state laws against their importation, manufacturing, sale, and distribution, with penalties as high as 30 years in prison. Despite all that, the use of anabolic steroids is still on the rise.

This growth in their use isn't just limited to elite athletes who consider these drugs just as vital to their performance enhancement as protein and omega-3's, but also among a rather broad swath of our culture. Amateur athletes have embraced them, as well as the regular gym dude who just wants to look good. Aging men covet them to fight off the effects of aging and teens use them to bolster up self esteem, despite all society has done to expose their alleged evils.

Clearly, statistics show that we're increasingly not just saying "no" to these drugs.

So my POV and perhaps discussion. I am in my late 50s and using these is perhaps not wise at this juncture of my life. Earlier in my life I did not have the cash to use these and the technology was not really safe. Today the knowledge base on these has developed to a high art and while costly, the results cannot be denied. I see no philosophical or moral issues with the use of steroids any more than any other supplement. That the US doesn't allow them and that sports organizations frown on them is irrelevant. Ask the Spec Ops...and even the LE Spec Ops people if they use them. The Mil guys will say they do...the LE will lie about it.

Ready...discuss...
]]>Saint James Barbell ClubGabriel Suarezhttp://www.warriortalk.com/showthread.php?136869-America-Loves-Steroids-The-True-Story-of-Anabolic-Usage-in-the-USPRETY GOOD PIECE ON FAT SHAMINGhttp://www.warriortalk.com/showthread.php?136841-PRETY-GOOD-PIECE-ON-FAT-SHAMING&goto=newpost
Sat, 16 Sep 2017 14:49:53 GMThttps://breakingmuscle.com/fitness/it-isnt-fat-shaming-how-protecting-feelings-hurts-health
Avoiding the Truth Helps No One To be sure, one must concede that there is a shortage of kindness, especially from those who hide behind the anonymity afforded by their keyboards. The internet is a fertile ground for insults, rudeness, and mean-spirited commentary. *Still, honest, critical stances are more necessary than ever, particularly in regard to health.
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Let’s Call a Spade a Spade *No growth can happen if we make maintenance of your comfort zone the top priority,* so set aside for a moment what might be offensive to who.https://breakingmuscle.com/fitness/i...s-hurts-health

Avoiding the Truth Helps No One

To be sure, one must concede that there is a shortage of kindness, especially from those who hide behind the anonymity afforded by their keyboards. The internet is a fertile ground for insults, rudeness, and mean-spirited commentary. Still, honest, critical stances are more necessary than ever, particularly in regard to health.

Let’s Call a Spade a Spade

No growth can happen if we make maintenance of your comfort zone the top priority, so set aside for a moment what might be offensive to who.
]]>Saint James Barbell ClubGabriel Suarezhttp://www.warriortalk.com/showthread.php?136841-PRETY-GOOD-PIECE-ON-FAT-SHAMINGBEWARE OF UNDERTRAININGhttp://www.warriortalk.com/showthread.php?136728-BEWARE-OF-UNDERTRAINING&goto=newpost
Sun, 10 Sep 2017 08:58:48 GMT
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Dear readers, I come to you today to discuss an epidemic that is sweeping the nation. This plague has claimed many young trainees over the years as a result of propaganda, bro knowledge, internet forums, youtube channels, and social media in general. I am, of course, talking about undertraining. The dangers of undertraining are severe, yet every day, more and more trainees engage in this reckless behavior. In most cases, this is due to ignorance, as trainees are either poorly informed on the topic of training, who they should talk to, or just what dangers lurk around the corner as they start down this dangerous path. My hope is that, by educating my readers, you will know the signs to look for and be able to take care of any young trainee about to embark on this practice.
So what is undertraining? Undertraining is the current craze sweeping the lifting internet nation. There are many examples of this, but typically it can include trainees only perform 3-5 sets MAX for a movement for the day, and of those sets, no more than 5 reps, trainees only lifting weights 3x a week, trainees performing ZERO cardio, conditioning or athletic work, and in general a complete lack of exertion and physical stress present in training. Parents and coaches beware; your child or protégé could be undertraining under your very nose! There are peddlers everywhere pushing this stuff on young naïve trainees. They use words like “minimal effective dose of volume” and “CNS burnout” to trick young minds into following their devious and perverted ways.
How can you tell if your child or student is undertraining? Know to look for the signs! Symptoms include a complete lack of physical development despite months of “training”, claims of being a “hardgainer”, claims of “eating everything and not gaining weight” or needing to “dirtybulk”, having to rest 5-8 minutes between sets in order to make their workouts last an hour, a lack of gym clothes in the laundry, an abundance of freetime to argue on the internet about what program is optimal, CARING about what program is optimal, a complete lack of awareness of what an assistance exercise is, zero conditioning base, a complete set of SBD gear and Olympic lifting shoes, having an Instagram fitness handle, and a physical appearance resembling a sweet potato someone left in a microwave for 4 minutes too long.
What can you do to combat this? You need to chase away the overtraining boogieman that has tricked your loved one down this path and get them on the road to recovery. Most perceived sensations of “overtraining” or “CNS burnout” amongst the general training populace are simply the manifestation of poor recovery, which can easily be remedied with a focus on IMPROVED recovery. For the basics, ensure your trainee is eating well enough to support training. Most likely, your trainee is convinced that they are both a hardgainer and need to follow a dirty bulk, which means they’ve found a means to justify a lazy, slovenly approach to eating that allows them to dine like a child on junkfood and candy without any actual awareness of what they are consuming. Have them immediately start eating meat and veggies with every meal and watch the recovery improve almost instantly, with some muscular gain to match.
Along with this, be aware that, the reason your trainee is having difficulty recovering between sets in the gym and between workouts outside of the gym and feeling overtrained in general is because your trainee is most likely a skinnyfat sack of untrained cookiedough with zero conditioning base due to a lifetime of neglecting any basic athletic activity who got sold a load a horse manure by a snake oil huckster claiming that the only way for a beginner trainee to overcome this is to train less than everyone else. That was a long run-on sentence, because holy Christ it is so goddamn insane that I wanted to just contain it all in one spot like a freakin’ quarantine zone after an outbreak of zombie syphilis. You’re trying to tell me that the way we’re going to get Johnny No-Sports on par with lifelong athletes is by starting him off with the lowest training volume ever witnessed by man and then reducing it even MORE once he inevitably stalls due to a lack of work capacity? How are people still believing this?
The way we get your loved one back on track is by viciously attacking that lack of work capacity head on with some dedicated time and energy focused on conditioning and assistance work. This is where we can sneak in a little volume to help them grow and develop their work capacity to recover better BETWEEN workouts while still improving their baseline conditioning to help them recover IN their workouts. And hey; more recovery IN a workout means more volume, while more recovery BETWEEN workouts means that more volume won’t lay your trainee out flat. Get them out running, riding bikes, playing sports, pulling sleds, splitting wood, etc etc. If it feels miserable at the time, it’s probably the right call.
You’ll note that I failed to address sleep on the recovery agenda. Well, I’m gonna level with you on this one folks; I haven’t had 8 hours of sleep since 2010 and I’m jacked out of my mind on energy drinks and diet mountain dew. My resting heart rate is 44, so I get to call those things “medicinal”. So I honestly can’t tell you that sleep is important without being a hypocrite, but here’s an idea; if you’re really really super duper hardcore concerned about overtraining, maybe try getting to bed at a decent hour every night and consistently trying to get there around the same time so that your body has a chance to develop a pattern here. I’m not saying you have to do it, but man, if you’re worried about overtraining and you’re NOT doing that, you’re most likely pretty dumb.
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Dear readers, I come to you today to discuss an epidemic that is sweeping the nation. This plague has claimed many young trainees over the years as a result of propaganda, bro knowledge, internet forums, youtube channels, and social media in general. I am, of course, talking about undertraining. The dangers of undertraining are severe, yet every day, more and more trainees engage in this reckless behavior. In most cases, this is due to ignorance, as trainees are either poorly informed on the topic of training, who they should talk to, or just what dangers lurk around the corner as they start down this dangerous path. My hope is that, by educating my readers, you will know the signs to look for and be able to take care of any young trainee about to embark on this practice.

So what is undertraining? Undertraining is the current craze sweeping the lifting internet nation. There are many examples of this, but typically it can include trainees only perform 3-5 sets MAX for a movement for the day, and of those sets, no more than 5 reps, trainees only lifting weights 3x a week, trainees performing ZERO cardio, conditioning or athletic work, and in general a complete lack of exertion and physical stress present in training. Parents and coaches beware; your child or protégé could be undertraining under your very nose! There are peddlers everywhere pushing this stuff on young naïve trainees. They use words like “minimal effective dose of volume” and “CNS burnout” to trick young minds into following their devious and perverted ways.

How can you tell if your child or student is undertraining? Know to look for the signs! Symptoms include a complete lack of physical development despite months of “training”, claims of being a “hardgainer”, claims of “eating everything and not gaining weight” or needing to “dirtybulk”, having to rest 5-8 minutes between sets in order to make their workouts last an hour, a lack of gym clothes in the laundry, an abundance of freetime to argue on the internet about what program is optimal, CARING about what program is optimal, a complete lack of awareness of what an assistance exercise is, zero conditioning base, a complete set of SBD gear and Olympic lifting shoes, having an Instagram fitness handle, and a physical appearance resembling a sweet potato someone left in a microwave for 4 minutes too long.

What can you do to combat this? You need to chase away the overtraining boogieman that has tricked your loved one down this path and get them on the road to recovery. Most perceived sensations of “overtraining” or “CNS burnout” amongst the general training populace are simply the manifestation of poor recovery, which can easily be remedied with a focus on IMPROVED recovery. For the basics, ensure your trainee is eating well enough to support training. Most likely, your trainee is convinced that they are both a hardgainer and need to follow a dirty bulk, which means they’ve found a means to justify a lazy, slovenly approach to eating that allows them to dine like a child on junkfood and candy without any actual awareness of what they are consuming. Have them immediately start eating meat and veggies with every meal and watch the recovery improve almost instantly, with some muscular gain to match.

Along with this, be aware that, the reason your trainee is having difficulty recovering between sets in the gym and between workouts outside of the gym and feeling overtrained in general is because your trainee is most likely a skinnyfat sack of untrained cookiedough with zero conditioning base due to a lifetime of neglecting any basic athletic activity who got sold a load a horse manure by a snake oil huckster claiming that the only way for a beginner trainee to overcome this is to train less than everyone else. That was a long run-on sentence, because holy Christ it is so goddamn insane that I wanted to just contain it all in one spot like a freakin’ quarantine zone after an outbreak of zombie syphilis. You’re trying to tell me that the way we’re going to get Johnny No-Sports on par with lifelong athletes is by starting him off with the lowest training volume ever witnessed by man and then reducing it even MORE once he inevitably stalls due to a lack of work capacity? How are people still believing this?

The way we get your loved one back on track is by viciously attacking that lack of work capacity head on with some dedicated time and energy focused on conditioning and assistance work. This is where we can sneak in a little volume to help them grow and develop their work capacity to recover better BETWEEN workouts while still improving their baseline conditioning to help them recover IN their workouts. And hey; more recovery IN a workout means more volume, while more recovery BETWEEN workouts means that more volume won’t lay your trainee out flat. Get them out running, riding bikes, playing sports, pulling sleds, splitting wood, etc etc. If it feels miserable at the time, it’s probably the right call.

You’ll note that I failed to address sleep on the recovery agenda. Well, I’m gonna level with you on this one folks; I haven’t had 8 hours of sleep since 2010 and I’m jacked out of my mind on energy drinks and diet mountain dew. My resting heart rate is 44, so I get to call those things “medicinal”. So I honestly can’t tell you that sleep is important without being a hypocrite, but here’s an idea; if you’re really really super duper hardcore concerned about overtraining, maybe try getting to bed at a decent hour every night and consistently trying to get there around the same time so that your body has a chance to develop a pattern here. I’m not saying you have to do it, but man, if you’re worried about overtraining and you’re NOT doing that, you’re most likely pretty dumb.

http://mythicalstrength.blogspot.com/2017/09/beware-of-undertraining.html
]]>Saint James Barbell ClubJLBhttp://www.warriortalk.com/showthread.php?136728-BEWARE-OF-UNDERTRAININGNinety Dates in Sparta, Ninety Days of No Excuses.http://www.warriortalk.com/showthread.php?136688-Ninety-Dates-in-Sparta-Ninety-Days-of-No-Excuses&goto=newpost
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 22:43:32 GMTAfter SWAT school, my schedule got shifted to 1725-0200 for some reason. Holdover has been between an hour and three hours per shift, which I guess is good for over time, but has been hell on my sleep cycle, diet, and fitness. I don't adapt well to night shift; never have. The result has been a full frontal assault on my mental and physical health. I won't go quietly into this goodnight.

This weekend is the start of my shugyo, my warrior's journey. I'll be praying at the Temple of Mars every day for the next three months. This means that every day, I hit at least one of the three warrior skillsets: physical training, shooting, or fighting. Fitness will include running, rucking, lifting, and high intensity training.

The goals are to have a minimum 10% gross strength gain in the three lifts after 90 days, a 10% reduction in run times for the 1 mile and 5km, and to achieve a 13:00/mile pace for a 12km ruck with 35-45lb.

Every day, I will go to the range, go to the dojo, or go to the gym. Period. Maybe all three. But, there won't be a day where I "just can't find [make] time."

Jocko Willink says that through discipline one finds freedom. Well, maybe I'll find a taste of that at the end of my journey.

We all live our lives in accordance with whatever job we have, whatever goals we are trying to achieve, and in spite of the many roadblocks and bullshit traps or snares that modern life throws at us. The Temple of Mars is a place where all of that shit gets left behind.

A friend took on the 90 day Fit Medic challenge, and it was a life changing thing for him. I watched it happen in him, and was impressed. He went from a fatbody to a beast, but most importantly, he rose to the challenge and then internalized the discipline, internalized the desire, and made what was once a challenge into an every day habit.

You don't know the struggle of eating super clean and super lean till you're choking down that last hunk of chicken for the day at 2115 at night or until you only have one scoop of protein powder left in your desk jug and you need 3 so you slam down a double scoop of something with the consistency of pudding right before your workout because you need the nutrition and then spend the rest of your Hump Day Pump Day workout bloated and in a combination of nausea, bloat, and pre vomit while decline pressing 365.

Hitting rock bottom as a lifter is when you spill a scoop of pre-workout on the counter and you have to resist the urge to either snort it or lick it up and rub it into your gums cause you need that bump to go get your pump on.

135x5
185x5
205x1
255x4x3
]]>Saint James Barbell ClubGabriel Suarezhttp://www.warriortalk.com/showthread.php?136632-9-03-2017-TODAY-S-WORKSTRONG PEOPLE ARE HARDER TO KILL - DEADLIFTShttp://www.warriortalk.com/showthread.php?136549-STRONG-PEOPLE-ARE-HARDER-TO-KILL-DEADLIFTS&goto=newpost
Wed, 30 Aug 2017 19:40:51 GMThttps://youtu.be/C-5P0p0Qe4M
Strong people are harder to kill and are better at killing. Its not just about being a good shot, we need to be better killers. So if you are already a good shot but look more like a couch sausage than a fighter...go lift something heavy. Your enemy is doing just that while you work on clever excuses.

Strong people are harder to kill and are better at killing. Its not just about being a good shot, we need to be better killers. So if you are already a good shot but look more like a couch sausage than a fighter...go lift something heavy. Your enemy is doing just that while you work on clever excuses.
]]>Saint James Barbell ClubGabriel Suarezhttp://www.warriortalk.com/showthread.php?136549-STRONG-PEOPLE-ARE-HARDER-TO-KILL-DEADLIFTSHow important is running?http://www.warriortalk.com/showthread.php?136521-How-important-is-running&goto=newpost
Sun, 27 Aug 2017 22:29:50 GMTI havent ran in years and ran over 8 miles this morning on a treadmill.
I used to run long distance 13 years ago. Two years ago I ran about a mile or so with my son. I have never ran more than a mile on a treadmill till this morning.
My 16 year old son and I will race the Houston Tough Mudder in November. I started the recommended training program from Tough Mudder about two weeks ago. I have not stopped lifting and will continue both routines.

CONDITIONING
Run 1.5 miles.
Every 3 minutes, stop
to do 5 Push Ups
and 6 Lunges on
each leg.

Instead of doing 1.5 miles I decide to double the work out. After 3 miles it was raining real bad so I called my wife and told her I was just going to keep going until I got tired or it slacked off.

An hour later I stopped. I estimate I ran over 8 miles. 9 minutes per a mile pace.
I have a lot to learn on the treadmill. In about a week I'm going to go on a long run outside and compare the real world to the treadmill.
Any suggestions to utilize the treadmill?

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]]>Saint James Barbell Clubjohn.c.perkins.9http://www.warriortalk.com/showthread.php?136521-How-important-is-running